School Visits

 

Elementary Schools

CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, District 16

CS 21 serves 700 students from Beford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. Students at CS 21 have benefited from Behind the Book's longstanding collaboration with the school. Key projects at CS 21 include a series of Elementary School Initiative programs that feature workshops and field trips concerning book creation and publishing, poetry writing, historical fiction, and civil rights research.

2010-2011

Grade1 Susana Pitzer, Not Afraid of Dogs: A series of workshop sessions for students to learn about fears.

Grade 2 Bryan Collier, Willie Perdomo, Visiting Langston

Grade 4 Andrea Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down

Grade 5 Alex Simmons, the Art of Comic Making

Grade 4 Doreen Rappaport, Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

2009-2010

Grade 1 Susanna Pitzer, Not Afraid of Dogs, fiction writing workshop about fears

Grade 2 Tony Medina, Christmas Makes Me Think, poetry writing workshop and Christmas service learning project

Grade 4 Andrea Pinkney, Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up to Sit Down, civil rights research project

Javaka Steptoe, The Jones Family Express, collage illustration workshop and field trip to Random House

Grade 5 Alex Simmons, Archie and Friends World Tour, comic book workshop and field trip to Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art

2008-2009

Kindergarten Irene Smalls, My Nana and Me, storytelling workshop

Grade 1 Paul DuBois Jacobs & Jennifer Swender, My Subway Ride, series of workshop sessions for children to create a book

Grade 2 Marc Tauss, Superhero, series of workshop sessions for children to create a book about superheroes

Grade 4 Tony Medina and Andrea Kantrowitz (teaching artist), I and I Bob Marley, poetry writing workshop

Zetta Elliot & Shadra Strickland, Bird, poetry writing and illustration workshops, Random House field trip

Grade 5 Kai Jackson Issa and Andrea Kantrowitz, Howard Thurman's Great Hope, series of workshop sessions for research project about the civil rights movement

Doreen Rappaport, Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round, historical fiction workshop

2007-2008

Grade 1 Mo Willems, Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity

Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Something Beautiful

Grade 2 Marc Tauss, Superhero, series of workshop sessions for children to create a book about superheroes

Grade 4 Andrea Davis Pinkney, Ella Fitzgerald, series of workshop sessions for children to create illustrated books Brian Pinkney, Duke Ellington and Pigony Po, series of workshop sessions for children to create illustrated books

Tony Medina, Love to Langston and DeShawn Days, series of workshop sessions for chldren to create illustrated books

Sean Qualls, Phyllis' Big Test, series of workshop sessions for children to create illustrated books Editors from Lee and Low Books (independent publisher of multicultural literature), workshop about publishing

Grade 5 John Grandits, Technically It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems, concrete poetry writing workshop

2006-2007

Grade 1 Marthe Jocelyn, Hannah's Collections and Hannah's Seven Dresses, collaborative collage workshop Mo Willems, Today I Will Fly!, special visit with three classes in one sitting

Grade 2 Tony Medina, Christmas Makes Me Think, poetry writing workshop (combined with a community service project)

Grade 3 Kam Mak, My Chinatown, illustrated book workshop

Grade 4 Brian Pinkney, Peggony-Po: A Whale of A Tale and The Adventures of Sparrowboy, illustrated book workshop

Grade 5 Mike Winerip, Check It Out!, school newspaper workshop

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